Gene wrote on Tue, 28 Sep 2010 09:38:15 -0700:


> "spamtrap1888" > wrote in message
> ...
>> While looking up the use of Concord grapes in wine, I ran
>> across an Italian wine -- now apparently banned -- made with American
>> grapes (Isabella), which gave it a strawberry
>> flavor. Fragolino is now apparently simulated with Vitis
>> vinifera wine and strawberry flavor.
>>
>> Does anyone know more about why the original wine was banned?

> http://www.science20.com/small_world...hind_fragolino

> Google can be your freind.

> Ciao,

I read the article and the impression I get is that Europeans are
superstitious. Vitis vinifera is always grafted onto Vitis lambrusca
rootstocks but the growers are deathly afraid of the lambrusca-vinifera
hybrid that used to produce fragolino so they now flavor wines with
artificial strawberry to imitate fragoino.

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James Silverton
Potomac, Maryland

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